Awards

• Winner of Winner, 2021 Otto Hieronymi Prize for International Relations Winner, 2021 Robert L. Jervis-Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association.
• Winner of Winner, 2021 Robert L. Jervis-Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, American Political Science Association.
• Winner of Winner, 2021 Robert L. Jervis-Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association.

Overview

When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in world politics? This question is particularly important today given the Trump administration's clear disregard for the reigning liberal international order in the United States. Across the globe, there is also uncertainty over what China might seek to replace that order with as it continues to amass power and influence. Together, these developments mean that what motivates great powers to shape and change order will remain at the forefront of debates over the future of world politics. Prior studies have focused on how the origins of international orders have been consensus-driven and inclusive. By contrast, Kyle M. Lascurettes argues in Orders of Exclusion that the propelling motivation for great power order building has typically been exclusionary. Dominant powers pursue fundamental changes to order when they perceive a major new threat on the horizon. Moreover, they do so for the purpose of targeting this perceived threat, be it another powerful state or a foreboding ideological movement. The goal of foundational rule writing in international relations, then, is blocking that threatening entity from amassing further influence, a motive Lascurettes illustrates at work across more than three hundred years of history. Far from falling outside of the bounds of traditional statecraft, order building is the continuation of power politics by other means.

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Anyone interested in the past, present, and especially the future of the US-led 'rules-based liberal order' needs to read this book. Kyle Lascurettes delivers a bracingly revisionist, profoundly learned, and historically rich reconsideration of the theory and practice of international orders with major implications for US strategic choices.Whether or not you buy every argument, this book will make you a lot smarter about the power politics of inter-state orders from Westphalia to the end of the Cold War and beyond * William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College *

In this arresting book, Lascurettes argues that, paradoxically, the US designed a liberal order in the 1940s precisely to exclude and weaken the anti-liberal Soviet Union.The theorizing in this book is subtle, the historical evidence formidable, and the conclusion for the future of Sino-American relations sobering. * John M. Owen, IV, Taylor Professor and Chair of Politics, University of Virginia * Anyone interested in the past, present, and especially the future of the US-led 'rules-based liberal order' needs to read this book. Kyle Lascurettes delivers a bracingly revisionist, profoundly learned, and historically rich reconsideration of the theory and practice of international orders with major implications for US strategic choices.Whether or not you buy every argument, this book will make you a lot smarter about the power politics of inter-state orders from Westphalia to the end of the Cold War and beyond * William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College *

Author Information

Kyle M. Lascurettes is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he specializes in global order, international institutions, and international relations theory.

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